"We began my friend's bachelorette at a Mexican restaurant with mega margaritas. Around the bride-to-be's third or fourth, she leaned over the table—and the candle in the centerpiece lit her hair on fire! She was wearing a ton of hairspray, so the flames traveled fast. One girl decided to try to put out the flame by dousing her with a vodka tonic—bad idea! The fire continued to spread until the table next to ours threw the contents of an ice bucket on her head. Luckily, she was okay, and the restaurant felt so bad for her they comped our entire bill."

—Lindsay, 24

Stinky Striptease

"When we went to Miami for my friend's bachelorette party last year, we decided to surprise her by having a stripper come to the hotel room before we went out. So this dude shows up and when he pulls down his pants, he's wearing these yellow-stained, paper-thin, saggy tighty whiteys. We were horrified! They were the male equivalent of granny panties meets period underwear. He started to sweat profusely, and it smelled so bad that we tried to open up the hotel windows, but of course they were locked. He made us take turns lying down on the bed while he did his little dance over us, but his stinky sweat beads were dripping on us. It was so gross, that we all had to re-shower before we went out." —Noelle, 29

"For a friend's bachelorette, we went to a beach town where we used to rent a house during summers in college. One of the bridesmaids thought it'd be funny to make the bride wear a Suck for a Buck t-shirt—essentially, the shirt was coated with candy right where her boobs were. Her friend thought she'd be too embarrassed to do this, but she was wrong. Really wrong. At a bar, the already plastered bachelorette took her blouse off right in front of everyone and put the candy shirt on. She not only solicited guys to come and "suck for a buck," but she ran into this dude she had hooked up with a few years ago. Not only did he suck for a buck, he sucked for about twenty bucks, and they ended up making out right there in front of everyone. Needless to say the next day, half-remembering all of this, she was mortified and terrified her fiance would find out. He never did—at least, not yet."—Leslie, 32

Bride Wars

"I went to a friend of a friend's massive bachelorette party, where the main goal seemed to be to get the bride-to-be totally hammered. Once she was wasted, her friends gave her a list of R-rated things she had to do that night. One of them was getting hot guys to sign her cleavage at the various bars we visited. Later, the groom met up with us and freaked when he spotted the signatures all over his fiance's tatas. He started screaming that she cheated on him...in front of a crowded bar. It was such a vicious throwdown, they nearly called off the wedding." —Ginny, 30

Sleeping Beauty

"I pulled out all the stops when I planned my best friend's bachelorette party, including stocking our hotel room full of liquor. Unfortunately the bride-to-be showed up with a nasty head cold that she'd been treating by popping decongestants. We began pre-partying in the room, but after one shot, the bride-to-be announced she was going to take a nap. She was so tired that even when we woke her up, she told us she didn't want to go out. Our supposed-to-be-epic night was spent in the hotel room, watching movies on demand while my best friend snoozed away in an alcohol-cold meds haze."

—Jenna, 25

Model Behavior

"My best friend is really into art, so instead of hiring a male stripper for her party, I brought in a nude male model and decided we'd launch the evening by sketching him. It started very sedately ... but after a few bottles of champagne (that we also shared with our male model), our group got crazy-rowdy. The maid of honor decided that the portrait would be better if she was in it, so she stripped and sat on the male model's lap! They ended up practically having sex right there on the podium in front of us." —Elizabeth, 27

"We'd started the bachelorette party with a long bar crawl, and by the time we got to our favorite place to dance, we were more than a little drunk. The bachelorette had been bragging that she'd taken pole dancing classes, so of course she couldn't resist when she noticed a column in the corner of the room. While showing off her moves, she suddenly began screaming in pain. Turns out, she'd been a little too eager to show off her moves and smacked her shin against the column, giving herself a fracture. We spent the rest of the party in the emergency room."—Sarah, 28

Bride Left Behind

"A sorority sister's bachelorette was in Vegas, and about 15 of us went there to celebrate. Things were tense when we got there because some of the girls had wildly different budgets than others. After a huge fight, two groups broke off, with one group going to an upscale club and another hitting a divey restaurant. The bad news? Each group thought the bride was with the other, when actually she'd been left back at the hotel! When no one answered her phone right away, she got so mad at everyone that she booked her own hotel room for the night and refused to speak to any of us."